The sun enters the cardinal and tropical sign Capricorn on the 22nd, attaining his greatest austral declination at 1h.

With this instrument they observe on certain stars of the British Catalogue, whose places are not very well determined, and with a mural circle of smaller power they determine declinations.

In our voyage we never lose sight of land, yet keep always at a considerable distance, carefully observing the declination of the sun, and keeping a southerly course till we arrive in four degrees on the equinoctial, when we suddenly change our course to the south-east, keeping the Ethiopian coast always on our left hand in our way to the island of St Thomas.

When the sun is in these points, he has reached his greatest northern and southern declination, and produces the most evident effects on the temperature of the seasons, and on the length of the days and nights.

I saw the comet blaze out, just on the edge of the field, and I could read its declination only.

The prayer of noon, when the sun shows a sensible declination from the meridian; 3rd.

But upon what authority do they suppose this declination of atoms, which comes so pat to bear up their system?

On this account, I delineated the figures of many of these new constellations, especially of the largest, and took their declinations on the tracks which they describe around the south pole, together with the measurement of the diameters and semidiameters of their tracks, as shall be found in the history of my four voyages which I am preparing for publication.